Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
Belief creates the actual fact.
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
Time itself comes in drops.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.